margrave of Ivrea Anscar of Ivrea

Male - 902


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  • Name Anscar of Ivrea 
    Title margrave of Ivrea 
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 37339 
    Died Mar 902 
    Person ID I37339  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Father Amadeus of Oscheret 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F12396  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. Adalbert I of Ivrea,   d. Between 923 and 924  [natural]
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F12395  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Anscar I (died March 902) was the margrave of Ivrea from 888 to his death. From 877 or 879, he was the count of Oscheret in Burgundy. He supported Guy III of Spoleto for the throne of France after the deposition of Charles the Fat in 887, but after Guy's failed attempt and the coronation of Odo, Count of Paris, he returned with Guy across the Alps, where the duke was elected King of Italy. In gratitude, he created the March of Ivrea in the northeast and invested his Burgundian supporter. He was a son of the count Amadeus of Oscheret of possible Bavarian origin with landholdings also in Tegernsee. Anscar was a counsellor of Boso of Provence and brother of Fulk, Archbishop of Rheims, who strongly supported the Carolingian dynasty in France. With Fulk, he probably invited Guy to France. Anscar fought on behalf of Guy's kingship in Italy. He battled Arnulf of Carinthia during the latter's invasion of 894 and he supported Guy's son Lambert after Guy's death that year. In 896, he was one of the few in the north to oppose Arnulf second invasion. After Lambert's death, he supported Berengar of Friuli as king and became his chief counsellor.

      Anscar's wife was unknown, but he had only one son, Adalbert, through whom he was the progenitor of a dynasty, the Anscarids.